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No need for a Creator

From
Matt Whiteley

How kind of you to print the letter from John Athanasiou with its thinly veiled “intelligent design” argument about the researcher input needed to produce synthetic life (12 March, p 27). It clearly takes enormous intelligent input for humans to attempt biogenesis. But Athanasiou is mistaken in his assertion that this is tantamount to proof that life cannot arise spontaneously from inorganic matter.

Closer inspection shows that he is missing two fundamental things. Firstly, the process that scientists are attempting to recreate took place over hundreds of millions of years.